Draft Medicare Model Guidelines v7 Open for Comment

Per the Medicare Modernization Act, USP’s expert volunteers and staff work with pharmaceutical benefit managers and others to develop drug categories and classes that prescription drug plans may use to develop Medicare Part D formularies. These periodic revisions also help the Guidelines keep pace with changes to the way covered Part D drugs are used.

As part of their draft process, the committee encourages public review and comment. Those comments are taken into consideration—and may help to inform important revisions—as the committee finalizes its submission to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

USP was founded nearly 200 years ago by eleven doctors who wanted to ensure that the nation had access to quality medicines. They put together the first pharmacopeia, a book of recipes for making tinctures, extracts, and other medicines.

In conversations about the role of quality standards in public health, you might come across the words “compendia” and “compendial.” At USP, terms like “compendial approaches,” “compendial standards,” and “compendial tools” are part of our everyda